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What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.
Reid Hoffman
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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
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Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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